Non-refillable bottle.



W. D. G. WOOD.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION nun SEPT. 13, 1910.

Patented Febu14, 1911.

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WARREN D. C. WOOD, OF HAXTUM, COLORADO.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 13, 1910.

. Patented Feb. 1 .1., 191 1..

Serial No. 581.897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VAnnnN l). C. \Voon, citizen oi the United States,residing at llaxtum, in the county of Phillips and State of Colorado,have invented certain new and useful IIHPL'OVOIHOIICS in Non-RefillableBottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in non- 'etillable bottles, or tobottles which cannot be used a second time without detection, and hasfor one of its objects to improve and sin'ipliiy the construction andincrease the elliciency and utility of devices of this charactcr.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterconstructed Wholly of glass and metal, and in which no part of thesecuring means comes in contact at any time with the contents of thebottle.

\Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as herein shown and described and thenspecifically pointed out in the claim; and, in the drawings illustrativeof the preferred embodiment of the invention, in which Figure 1 is avertical section of a portion of a bottle including the neck, with theimprovement applied; Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 ofFig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

The improved device may be applied to bottles of any size or to bottlesor like closures for containing any kind of liquid, but for the purposeof illustration is shown ap plied to a conventional bottle in which aportion of the body is represented at 10 and the neck at 11. Formed uponone side of the neck is a projection 12 having an internal cavity orbore 13 communicating with the interior of the neck, as shown. Theprojection 12 is surrounded by a breaking groove or channel 2-1, theobject to be hereafter described. Fitting in the neck 11 is a stopper orcork l-ft, ureter-ably of glass or similar material, and provided with aflange 15 at the upper end to limit its downward movement. The stopper14 is pre't erably ground into the neck to render it liquid tight.Formed Within the stopper 14 is a'longitudinal cavity 16 having one side17 straight and the other side 18 inclined and with a projection 19directed inwardly from the inclined side, as shown. An aperture 90 isformed in the straight side of the stopper cavity and registers with therecess 13 when the stopper is disposed within the bottle neck, as shownin Figs. 1, and 2.

A relatively short metal strip 21 and a relatively long metal striphaving a re silicnt lateral terminal 23 completes the improved device,and etmstitute the lock ot the same, and are applied as follows. Afterthe contents have been inserted into the bottle it) the stopper l t withthe shorter strip 21 is located in the cavity 20 and extends across thelower portion of the cavity 16. The stopper '14- is then so arrangedthat the aperture 20 registers with the recess 13. The, longer strip 22is then inserted into the cavity to and utiliyed to move the shorterstrip into the recess 13, and the strip 22 forced downward until theyieldable extension 23 passes beneath the projection 19 when the freeend ot extension will snap beneath the projection and ellectually lockthe strip 2" in the stopper and likewise lock strip 21 in the apertureQt) and cavity 13. This etlectually locks the stopper into the bottleneck and it can be removed only bv breaking the projection which canreadily be done at the break channel 2-1, as will be obvious. The strip31 can then be withdrawn and the stopper removed. The breaking channel 2t being comparatively remote from the neck ll, no danger exists otbrokcnglass getting into the bottle.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be manutactured atonly a slight increas--1e of expense over that of an ordinary bottle andoperates elleclually to protect the manu'tacturer from the second usingot the bottle.

Having thus described the invention, what is clain'ied as new is:-

A bottle including a neck portion, a projection extending from said neckportion and having an internal recess communicating with the neck, astopper engaging in the neck and having an outwardly opening cavity andwith a lateral aperture registering with the recess of the neckprojection and located intermediate the stopper recess, said stopperbeing further provided within its cavity with an inwardly directed stoplug located intermediate its ends and inwardly ot the lateral aperture,a locking member extending through the neck aperture and into the recessof the neck projection, and

another locking member engaging in the P In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature stopper cavlty and against the first men- 111 presence of twowltnesses. tionecl locking member, said lastmentioned 4 /T J- locklngmember havlng a resillent terminal WARREN [I 51 extending normallysubstantially at right lVitnesses: angles thereto for engaging beneaththe stop C. M. GALE, lug. M. H. BENTSON.

